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Hello! I'm MeowFactor.
2002 baby! he/him ️
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I am at heart an artist and a lover of cats. I've been "collecting" since 2002, and Collecting™ since early 2021.
My most beloved is G3, though I'll happily collect any generation.
I also collect various minerals and am a total gem nerd.
I've been a My Little Pony fan quite literally almost my entire life. My first ponies were a family of three MJ Fakies and it's all snowballed from there! Growing up in the 2000s, I had a modest collection of a few G3 ponies that stole my heart. I distinctly remember Pearly Pie being a favorite of mine. I had the hardcover Storybook Collection, but had never seen even a second of animated material until I got Pinkie Pie's Special Day as a birthday gift when I turned seven. I got my first MLP movie with Twinkle Wish Adventure, and let me tell you, I was OBSESSED with it. I'd watch it day in and day out. With the advent of G3.5, I also came into possession of a few Meet the Ponies DVDs that came with the toys. And when G4 premiered, albeit a bit put off by the new look, I was captivated all over again-- instantly falling in love with Applejack, who remains to this day my favorite G4 pony! Around this time I also began frequently drawing ponies and making up my own characters. Throughout the years I continued to request ponies for birthday gifts (yet kept being disappointed by the lack of unique characters,) and my G4 collection quickly outgrew G3 by a mile. As a child I had always been very outspoken and proud about loving My Little Pony, never succumbing to bullying or taunts. Once I reached high school, however, my tune changed a bit. I'm not sure if it's a mix of teenage insecurity, (subjectively) degrading writing in Friendship is Magic, or maybe a mix of both, but my love of ponies became quiet and undisturbed for a good few years.
...enter 2020.
Freshly graduated and looking on at the bright future of... stuck at home with no idea what's to happen next, I found myself diving back into My Little Pony. I finished FIM, and then went even further back, rewatching all the G3 media I could find, then My Little Pony Tales! (for some reason I can't stick to the original G1 show aside from Rescue at Midnight Castle. Perhaps someday I'll watch it all.) Soon enough I began drawing My Little Ponies instead of Crystal Gems, and might I say, they look much nicer than the ponies I used to draw as a child!
At some point in 2021, I saw the Basic Fun G3 repros and wanted to get my hands on an Applejack, but she was the only one I could never find in stores. And so, off to eBay I went, and bought what I consider the catalyst in my adult MLP collecting life. Since then, I started with cleaning up my childhood toys, and then progressed to buying new ponies for my collection. ...I don't have a real place to put them, so they currently live in storage, but I have a lovely time fixing up secondhand ponies all the same. Someday, I'll dedicate a bookshelf or two to all my cute colorful equines.
Honestly I'm surprised I hadn't joined this forum sooner! Well, I'm glad to be here now. This seems like a lovely and passionate community of collectors.
Other places you can find me are:
My Art Instagram
Where you'll find mostly ponies now, but
there's no set "theme" other than... my art!
My Pony Tumblr
Where I post any and all things My Little Pony related! Art, toy restorations,
textposts, and of course, reblogs of other people's great artworks and posts!
My Pony Instagram
Just the toys! Mostly restorations, but I plan to also post nicer photoshoots when I have time.
2002 baby! he/him ️
️I am at heart an artist and a lover of cats. I've been "collecting" since 2002, and Collecting™ since early 2021.
My most beloved is G3, though I'll happily collect any generation.
I also collect various minerals and am a total gem nerd.
I've been a My Little Pony fan quite literally almost my entire life. My first ponies were a family of three MJ Fakies and it's all snowballed from there! Growing up in the 2000s, I had a modest collection of a few G3 ponies that stole my heart. I distinctly remember Pearly Pie being a favorite of mine. I had the hardcover Storybook Collection, but had never seen even a second of animated material until I got Pinkie Pie's Special Day as a birthday gift when I turned seven. I got my first MLP movie with Twinkle Wish Adventure, and let me tell you, I was OBSESSED with it. I'd watch it day in and day out. With the advent of G3.5, I also came into possession of a few Meet the Ponies DVDs that came with the toys. And when G4 premiered, albeit a bit put off by the new look, I was captivated all over again-- instantly falling in love with Applejack, who remains to this day my favorite G4 pony! Around this time I also began frequently drawing ponies and making up my own characters. Throughout the years I continued to request ponies for birthday gifts (yet kept being disappointed by the lack of unique characters,) and my G4 collection quickly outgrew G3 by a mile. As a child I had always been very outspoken and proud about loving My Little Pony, never succumbing to bullying or taunts. Once I reached high school, however, my tune changed a bit. I'm not sure if it's a mix of teenage insecurity, (subjectively) degrading writing in Friendship is Magic, or maybe a mix of both, but my love of ponies became quiet and undisturbed for a good few years.
...enter 2020.
Freshly graduated and looking on at the bright future of... stuck at home with no idea what's to happen next, I found myself diving back into My Little Pony. I finished FIM, and then went even further back, rewatching all the G3 media I could find, then My Little Pony Tales! (for some reason I can't stick to the original G1 show aside from Rescue at Midnight Castle. Perhaps someday I'll watch it all.) Soon enough I began drawing My Little Ponies instead of Crystal Gems, and might I say, they look much nicer than the ponies I used to draw as a child!
At some point in 2021, I saw the Basic Fun G3 repros and wanted to get my hands on an Applejack, but she was the only one I could never find in stores. And so, off to eBay I went, and bought what I consider the catalyst in my adult MLP collecting life. Since then, I started with cleaning up my childhood toys, and then progressed to buying new ponies for my collection. ...I don't have a real place to put them, so they currently live in storage, but I have a lovely time fixing up secondhand ponies all the same. Someday, I'll dedicate a bookshelf or two to all my cute colorful equines.
Honestly I'm surprised I hadn't joined this forum sooner! Well, I'm glad to be here now. This seems like a lovely and passionate community of collectors.
Other places you can find me are:
My Art Instagram
Where you'll find mostly ponies now, but
there's no set "theme" other than... my art!
My Pony Tumblr
Where I post any and all things My Little Pony related! Art, toy restorations,
textposts, and of course, reblogs of other people's great artworks and posts!
My Pony Instagram
Just the toys! Mostly restorations, but I plan to also post nicer photoshoots when I have time.
